***SPOILERS*** The very durable on TV, he had four successful hit TV series, David Janssen is ex CIA Agent and now mystery writer Lester Horton who in trying to find research on his latest spy novel gets involved in a plot to rub him out, by the CIA who else, for talking too much about the spy agency's past as well as future actions. Lester for his part is totally ignorant in what the CIA is up to but his former boss and CIA Station Chief Arthur Kennedy can't take any chances and gives him an ultimatum either to quite writing his book or end up being written about in the local obituary column.
Lester is worked over by CIA tugs in Athens Greece as well as kidnapped and committed ,against his will, to a mental asylum before he's rescued by local police inspector Phillippe Leroy who feels that he's getting a raw deal and has him shipped off to a far off Greek island for his own good and safety. It's there that Lester meets his love interest in the movie Anne Florio, Corinne Clery, who's late husband and good friend of Lester John, Maurizio Merli, was murdered by the spy agency's Greek operatives for not revealing about the existence of a tape, that in fact was destroyed, that exposes it's plans for future overthrows of European as well as South American governments.
***SPOILERS*** Poor Lester just couldn't free himself, even in a far off Greek island, from the long arm of the CIA when one of it's freelance assassins gets to him and knocked off his Greek girlfriend Anne before he could come to her aid. Now mad as hell and not going to take it anymore Lester takes off after the CIA hit-man and after hesitating at first, he just couldn't bring himself to shoot an unnamed man, blasts the living hell out of him. With the danger now over he went back to his favorite Greek restaurant to order a home cooked souvlaki dinner for lunch.
Lester is worked over by CIA tugs in Athens Greece as well as kidnapped and committed ,against his will, to a mental asylum before he's rescued by local police inspector Phillippe Leroy who feels that he's getting a raw deal and has him shipped off to a far off Greek island for his own good and safety. It's there that Lester meets his love interest in the movie Anne Florio, Corinne Clery, who's late husband and good friend of Lester John, Maurizio Merli, was murdered by the spy agency's Greek operatives for not revealing about the existence of a tape, that in fact was destroyed, that exposes it's plans for future overthrows of European as well as South American governments.
***SPOILERS*** Poor Lester just couldn't free himself, even in a far off Greek island, from the long arm of the CIA when one of it's freelance assassins gets to him and knocked off his Greek girlfriend Anne before he could come to her aid. Now mad as hell and not going to take it anymore Lester takes off after the CIA hit-man and after hesitating at first, he just couldn't bring himself to shoot an unnamed man, blasts the living hell out of him. With the danger now over he went back to his favorite Greek restaurant to order a home cooked souvlaki dinner for lunch.